Posted By
Gaia
on 2006-08-21
19:49:14
|  64-bit Windows?
Does someone have it installed? I have built an Amd x64 version of Yape and need someone to beta test it.
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Posted By
indi
on 2006-08-22
02:55:22
| Re: 64-bit Windows?
Yep...I have it. Well, 64bit Vista beta 2.
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Posted By
Gaia
on 2006-08-22
04:29:00
| Re: 64-bit Windows?
Well, that's killing two birds with one stone  I'll send it over to you this evening, cheers!
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Posted By
Crown
on 2006-08-22
05:39:03
| Re: 64-bit Windows?
64bit XP here as well.
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Posted By
Gaia
on 2006-08-22
06:21:28
| Re: 64-bit Windows?
Great that's two already! Will 64-bit Windows ever have its hayday, what do you think?
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Posted By
Gaia
on 2006-08-22
14:30:15
| Re: 64-bit Windows?
OK, I have uploaded the (AMD) 64-bit beta build to here.
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Posted By
indi
on 2006-08-22
15:32:43
| Re: 64-bit Windows?
Okay.... I'll give it a go as soon as I can.
Yeah, we're starting to need 64 bit in development now - I guess with all the 64bit CPU's being so cheap now, theres no reason why folk can't get "XP64" or whatever. It runs 32bit stuff fine so there shouldn't be an issue.
...except for drivers. you NEED 64bit drivers.
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Posted By
Crown
on 2006-08-23
05:02:00
| Re: 64-bit Windows?
Same here. Basically most of the CPUs sold today has 64bit in it now.
Only issue is that you need driver support, you have to check in advance that there is 64bit drivers available for all your hardware... Printer drivers are one weak point. Also the NoExecute aka DEP protection is very sketchy, you can run into it very easily. It is turned on by default if the CPU supports it, and if you have a program which runs code in data segments than you will see frequent crashes due to that, it can take explorer easily with it. It is not really serious just very annoying.
Also some software refuse to install itself on 64bit OS. Visual Studio .NET is one example, you need at least VS.NET 2003 or 2005.
Otherwise is pretty cool. If you do not want to switch yet, you can easily try it out on 32bit XP if your CPU supports 64bit with VMware. They do have the ability to run 64bit guest OS-es on 32bit host OS.
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Posted By
Crown
on 2006-08-23
09:13:58
| Re: 64-bit Windows?
No go. Zlibwapi.dll missing...
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Posted By
Gaia
on 2006-08-23
10:31:18
| Re: 64-bit Windows?
That's really odd :-/ I link statically with ZLIB, so it should have worked. I'll have a look at it again tonight. Thanks for testing.
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Posted By
Gaia
on 2006-08-23
15:22:08
| Re: 64-bit Windows?
OK, so the ZLIBSTAT.LIB was corrupted, so I recompiled it and reuploaded a new build, could you please test again?
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Posted By
Mike
on 2006-08-25
08:05:12
| Re: 64-bit Windows?
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/08/25/hollywood_demands_64-bit_pcs/
Apparently, MediaPlayer 11 will only play HDDVD's or Blueray under a 64bit OS due to the ease of hacking on a 32bit one....
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Posted By
Gaia
on 2006-08-28
18:40:19
| Re: 64-bit Windows?
So, could you guys test the new build?
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Posted By
Mike
on 2006-08-29
13:10:28
| Re: 64-bit Windows?
Runs fine with me..... 64bit version of MS Windows Vista
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Posted By
Gaia
on 2006-08-29
15:04:27
| Re: 64-bit Windows?
Great, so it's even Vista proof And what speed you can achieve with it?
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Posted By
indi
on 2006-08-30
03:59:32
| Re: 64-bit Windows?
It was running full tilt.... but I didn't try an unbound FPS on it...
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Posted By
Gaia
on 2006-08-30
04:38:41
| Re: 64-bit Windows?
What I mean is if it's running faster than the 32-bit version, although I don't expect that, it'd be good to know.
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Posted By
Crown
on 2006-08-30
06:27:43
| Re: 64-bit Windows?
Runs fine here too...
Average speed was 1400% 10 fps, it was slightly faster and more stable than the 32bit build, which sometimes wildly jumped down to 1200% average there was around 1360%, but this is a little bit subjective, as neither build ever stabilized at a fix speed, speed varied a lot every time I run a test.
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Posted By
Gaia
on 2006-08-30
07:10:27
| Re: 64-bit Windows?
OK, thanks a bunch. It's weird, I am getting 1800-1900% speed with my ~3 years old 3GHz Northwood. It seems like the newest CPU's are not much better for emulation than the ones 3 years ago?
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Posted By
siz
on 2006-08-30
08:47:39
| Re: 64-bit Windows?
Maybe it would help if you use the same settings? (Same number of drives, same drive types, etc..) ?
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